SimranPatel

Core/languagearts
February10,2015

Dragon Wings Essay

YourlifedoesnotgetbetterbychancebutbychangeJimRohn

In Mrs.Meindl's core class we read a amazing book called Dragon

Wings this is maybe the best book that I, I have ever read. Change is
significant theme in the novel DragonWings by Laurence Yep. Many
characters face challenges during the story and change is a result. The
story tells of a young boy, Moonshadow, who travels to San Francisco to
live with his father in Chinatown in 1903. He faces many changes and
challenges like discrimination, violence, culture shock,and the challenge
has faces throughout the book is trying to help his father achieve his
most wanted dream. Moonshadow hopes for a better future and that is
what helped him get through his problems along the way. Moonshadow
actually matches the quote that i put on the top of the this paragraph
because he learned the better to change and always knew it wasnt by
chance.
One of the changes the moonshadow goes through is when he and

his dad, Windrider came to Mrs. Whitelaw's house and the reason they
are staying there at Mrs. Whitelaw's house is because Moonshadows
dad had killed someone in self-defense, so they had to escape the country
so they wouldn't get jailed or anything like that sort. They were a little
afraid because Mrs.Whitlaw was a demoness. Back in those year
chinese or Tang people the point when Windrider and Moonshadow
moved in they met Robin in a weird way they had some knowledge on
English and fluency.

SimranPatel
Core/languagearts
February10,2015

The challenge that Moonshadow had to go through was when he had

to he learned how to speak english and he learned from Robin he
practiced every day and he wanted to get better and then he got fluent
english. He also helped his dad get fluent.

Quotes
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was afraid of the Golden Mountain, and yet my father, who lived there,
wanted me to join him. I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life
the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should. I
owed it to Father to obey him in everything even if it meant going to such a
fearful place as the Golden Mountain. ()

Though Moon Shadow is afraid of all the unknowns of the Land of the Golden
Mountain, his larger sense of duty to family extinguishes his fears.
Miss Whitlaw had a smile like the Listener, She Who Hears Prayers, who
refused release from the cycle of lives until all her brothers and sisters too
could be freed from sin.

Moon Shadow's first impression of Miss Whitlaw turns out to be a fortuitous

premonition, for Miss Whitlaw is a selfless friend who comes to be as close as
family.( )

SimranPatel
Core/languagearts
February10,2015